Sentences with phrase «as a species during»

Ron Bailey (whom you cited above) comments about our considerable success as a species during the last two hundred years.

Not exact matches

Jane manages online strategy campaigns at NWF and during her free time likes to spend as much time as she can outdoors, especially in places where native species are found.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

In spite of the fact that the cosmos is truly our home (as we argued on scientific, biblical, and environmental grounds in the preceding chapter) our species nevertheless began (during the axial age) to feel gradually somewhat exiled from subhuman patterns of natural existence.

It was used primarily as a grain and flour during the Bronze age through the Middle Ages, when the current species of wheat was first cultivated for use.

By Kraig Kraft The Search for the Origins of Chile Peppers Starts in Arizona As a graduate student studying crop evolution at U.C. Davis, I am focusing my work on describing the genetic changes that took place during the domestication of Capsicum annuum, a species that includes some of the most common varieties of chile peppers cultivated worldwide.

These two species were skillfully crossbred during the next few decades, resulting in the plump Tahitian vanilla beans we know today, known as Vanilla tahitensis.

During the flooding period, the network of irrigation canals and the organic paddy fields close to lagoons become a crucial link between marine and river environments, and provide an important habitat for many species of fish and amphibians, such as damnbusia (Gambusia holbrooki), carp (Cyprinus carpio), fartet (Lebias ibera - an endemic fish of the western Mediterranean Sea), coruna frog (Rana perezi), and others.

During the publicity that surrounded the first superhot chile, the habanero in the early»90s, cooks realized that the chinense species with the floral and fruity overtones of its pods, were the perfect peppers to complement fruits, as you will see below.

If breastfeeding were as consuming and hard as it is during the first month for the entire year or more... then we never would have survived as a species.

Despite a cool start on both Friday evening and Saturday morning, 688 enthusiastic birders ventured forth to comb the Commonwealth in search of as many bird species as possible during the 24 - hour Bird - a-thon period.

As ecosystems of the human environment change during development, pregnancy, or with changing diets, which bacterial species remain or how these microbial species function may shift is slowly becoming understood.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

Last year, state officials floated the possibility of protecting wildlife species by shutting Indian Point during the summer months — which would essentially erase its profitability — during the separate ongoing negotiations over its water withdrawal certificate required as part of its re-licensing.

The human capacity for creativity and collaboration allows our species to make works of art as well as warfare, said anthropologist Agustín Fuentes during a lecture at AAAS» headquarters on 7 December.

During the first year after land clearing, bird species such as the black - banded woodcreeper and the black - throated antshrike disappeared locally.

They made these clones by a process called automatic parthenogenesis: The egg is formed normally (with half the species» usual number of chromosomes), then fertilized by the «polar body,» a cell that is created during oogenesis and contains the same gene copies as the egg, resulting in the shark having half the genetic variation of its mother.

Warmer winters, wetter and earlier springs (which expand the time during which ticks can pick up the disease), increased humidity, and greener environments can all contribute to the increased incidence of ticks and the growing populations of hosts, including large mammals like white - tailed deer; smaller ones such as white - footed mice, the principal carrier of Lyme disease; and many species of birds.

This epiphany came to me during my short stint as a scientist with Environment Canada in its endangered species division.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK and the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, conducted research on wild bonobos and found that in this species individuals produce a call type, known as the «peep», across a range of positive, negative and neutral situations, such as during feeding, travel, rest, aggression, alarm, nesting and grooming.

This beautiful new species was discovered as a lucky bycatch during targeted specimen catching at 157 - 167 m depth off Curaçao as a part of the Smithsonian Institution «sDeep Reef Observation Project (DROP).

On dinosaurs, as on modern birds, feathers could have served a variety of purposes, providing lift or maneuverability during flight; a means of sending signals to other members of its species, including those of the opposite sex; or insulating against the cold.

Yet the fossil record contains no evidence that unique species evolved on the subcontinent during this time, so India may not have been as isolated as it seemed to be.

«We don't completely understand why those species occur during cholera infection, but that phenomenon may offer clues as to why we observe different species of gut bacteria among humans in different parts of the world.

The unanticipated, negative outcomes that can follow when non-native species enter naive populations — such as the now pestilential Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), a legume native to Japan that was introduced into the southern U.S. during the late 19th century — might not apply in the same way with a bioaugmentation approach to the chytrid problem.

Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»

Researchers have developed a model to assess how dams affect the viability of sea - run fish species that need to pass dams as they use both fresh and marine waters during their lifetimes.

Ibrahim cites variation among fossils of T. rex, as well as its wide geographic distribution — the iconic dinosaur has been found in both Texas and Canada, for example — when dismissing his critics» argument that a single spinosaurid species was unlikely to have lived in both Morocco and Egypt during the middle of the Cretaceous period.

The authors defined the rariphotic based on depth observations of about 4,500 fishes representing 71 species during approximately 80 submersible dives to as deep as 309 meters.

He found that warm - water phytoplankton, known as dinoflagellates, were replaced during that time by species from the colder waters of the North Atlantic.

During their study, the researchers also discovered a species on the island that may help control the brown widow population naturally: the parasitoid wasp known as Philolema latrodecti.

During the Iran - Iraq war in the 1980s, troop movement and heavy bombing had a serious impact on the two countries» shared fragile desert ecosystem, which is home to such species as sand cats and spiny - tailed lizards.

And the quality of sleep deteriorates as both species age: the individuals nap more frequently during the day and sleep for shorter periods at night.

This more positive and social response could help explain the human connection that happens during times of crises, a connection that may be responsible, at least in part, for our collective survival as a species.

«As surface water sources became more scarce during a given climate cycle, the only species to survive may have been those with adaptations for sufficient mobility to discover a new and more persistent groundwater source, or those already settled within home range of such a resource,» co-author Professor Gail Ashley, Rutgers University (US), said.

The survey shows that up to one third of the 155 ships that entered the ports of Svalbard during 2011 came from ports that will in the future have an environmental match with Svalbard, thereby increasing the risk that harmful species, which may be brought in as stowaways on ships, will be able to establish themselves.

The benthic species that were dominant during the time of the most severe pollution declined as the pollution, especially phosphorus, abated.

But at some stage during their evolution, they radiated — around 300 species are known at present, including deep - sea as well as reef - dwelling forms.

Published literature shows dramatic shifts in species» ranges as glaciers retreated, but little evidence of mass extinctions during that period (1).

Researchers suggest that the effect of mothers» appetites may help prevent species going extinct, and help counteract the effect of large numbers within a population being preyed upon, such as during harvesting.

The team looked at an outer surface protein of B. burgdorferi found in ticks — which can give clues about the vertebrate host — as well as the probabilities that different host species transmit the microbe during a tick bite, the number of larvae feeding on the animals, and population densities.

Pavlićev then realized that women still undergo the same hormonal changes as species with induced ovulation, but during orgasm.

During the research they used species from the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) in Costa Rica as well as previously published detailed data.

«When bees are promiscuous, visiting plants of more than one species during a single foraging session, they are much less effective as pollinators,» Briggs says.

During the Miocene epoch, as many as 100 species of apes roamed throughout the Old World.

Lionfish were first detected in Florida waters during the 1980s and were recognized as an established invasive species in the 2000s, according to Amanda Nalley, a public information specialist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).

Europe is particularly vulnerable, as it has the lowest fraction of its land area, only four per cent, of any continent in «refugia» — areas of biological diversity that support many species where natural environmental conditions remain relatively constant during times of great environmental change.

Because they are common to all avian species one of them, at least, likely dates as far back as dinosaurs, which could mean that dinosaurs acquired these sequences before and during their transition to birds.

His team tracked the northernmost sightings of 30 nudibranch species along the US coast during 2014, when a large portion of the eastern Pacific Ocean was unusually warm — a phenomenon that came to be known as «the blob ``.

In captivity, the females of some species such as the European or praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) have often been observed to kill and eat the male during sex, although it remains controversial whether this deadly love bite is commonly delivered in the wild.